SCDSS v. George Cleveland, III (2)

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EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

South Carolina Department of Social Services,
Respondent,

v.

Kristie L. Taylor, Quinton Hooks, and George Cleveland,
III, Defendants,

Of whom George Cleveland, III, is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2024-000363

Appeal From Anderson County
Timothy H. Pogue, Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2025-UP-154
Submitted April 28, 2025 – Filed April 30, 2025

AFFIRMED

George Cleveland, III, of Townville, pro se.

Kathryn J. Walsh, of South Carolina Department of
Social Services, of Spartanburg, for Respondent.
Kimberly Welchel Pease, of Seneca, for the Guardian ad
Litem.

PER CURIAM: George Cleveland, III, (Father) appeals the family court's
permanency planning order. On appeal, Father argues the family court erred in (1)
violating Rule 241 of the South Carolina Appellate Court Rules by holding the
permanency planning hearing while his appeal of the removal order was pending,
(2) allowing the South Carolina Department of Social Services (DSS) to schedule
the hearing in violation of the Separation of Powers doctrine, and (3) depriving
Father of his right to due process by imposing treatment deadlines during the
pendency of the appeal of the removal order. We affirm pursuant to Rule 220(b),
SCACR.

Father's record on appeal did not include the transcript of the permanency planning
hearing.1 Because Father did not produce a sufficient record, we are unable to
conduct a de novo review. See Klein v. Barrett, 427 S.C. 74, 79, 828 S.E.2d 773,
776 (Ct. App. 2019) ("On appeal from the family court, the appellate court reviews
factual and legal issues de novo."); Rule 210(h), SCACR ("[T]he appellate court
will not consider any fact which does not appear in the Record on Appeal.");
Taylor v. Taylor, 294 S.C. 296, 299, 363 S.E.2d 909, 911 (Ct. App. 1987) ("The
burden is on the appellant to furnish a sufficient record on appeal from which this
court can make an intelligent review.").

AFFIRMED. 2

KONDUROS, MCDONALD, and VINSON, JJ., concur.

1
Because the permanency planning hearing from which this appeal arises was
scheduled to occur between two hearings in another DSS action involving Father—
but not Child—the family court stated it would handle both matters in the other
action before holding the permanency planning hearing. However, the transcript
included in the record on appeal ends after the hearings in the other action.
2
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.